Example sentences of "[verb] he sees " in BNC.

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1 I believe firmly that John McEnroe is not lying when he says he sees the small print on a tennis ball , and Jackie himself has often referred to his vision as a paramount essential in driving .
2 Revealing losses matching the company 's ( shrunken ) turnover in Germany , IBM chairman John Akers says he sees real signs of recovery .
3 Norman Lamont joins IBM as chief financial officer , says he sees glimmers of green among the brown shoots of economic winter .
4 ‘ Hilary Frome says he sees old Garfitt round the back door of the baker 's on her way to school in the mornings , ’ chimed in Pickerage .
5 A spokesman said : ‘ The Industrial Tribunal chairman says he sees no reasonable chance of success in a review .
6 The guy we now know is called Casey stomps out of the phonebox and glares up the road in our direction so hard you could swear he sees us .
7 As to complicating life — I suspect he sees complication as a masculine domain — for us women would n't want to worry ‘ our pretty little heads ’ over ‘ complicated ’ matters .
8 Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman
9 GERSTNER TAKES IBM HELM SAYING HE SEES ‘ NO QUICK FIX ’
10 ‘ Oh , Adam was a gardener , and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener 's work is done upon his knees . ’
11 is understood to have indicated he sees no necessity for blanket adherence to the report 's findings on seating .
12 Yeah I think that 's very important that one because he understands he sees the loneliness that his grandfather 's feeling .
13 You know he obviously sees rich peasants as you know a more er unattractive class of peasant , I mean he sees the poor peasants as the real er vanguard of the revolution , the people who have done all the work and erm sacrificed er security at an early stage
14 I think he sees in you and the hotel industry the opportunity to be part of a glamorous , high-profile business , and one his hard-faced wife would approve of .
15 We prefer to see him as we think he sees himself : a pragmatist . ’
16 When Pinkie is cornered he sees , as perhaps Joyce did in a Lambeth alley , ‘ Semitic faces ringing him all round .
17 A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night .
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